Rate My Professor Javier Andreu

Javier Andreu is Full Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History, History of Art, and Geography at Universidad de Navarra, a position held since September 2022. Previously, he served as Associate Professor of Ancient History at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia from 2007, tutor of History at UNED Tudela since 2004 and UNED Pamplona since 2014, and joined Universidad de Navarra's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in 2014. From 2018 to 2022, he was Vice-Dean for Students, Research, and Graduate Studies. He directs the department since 2022, coordinates the Diploma in Archaeology since 2018, and is secretary of the departmental management committee. Born in Pamplona in 1973, he earned his degree in History and PhD in 2002 from University of Zaragoza, with thesis "Edictum, municipium y lex: motivaciones, formas jurídicas y consecuencias de la extensión del ius latii y la municipalización de Hispania en época Flavia (69-96 d.C.)." He completed research stays at Universities of Coimbra, Oxford, Munich, and Heidelberg as Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow.

Andreu's research specializes in Latin epigraphy, Roman elites, and Roman settlements in Hispania, particularly Vascones territory. He is scientific director of excavations at Roman city Los Bañales (Uncastillo, Zaragoza) since 2008 with Fundación Uncastillo and coordinator of Santa Criz de Eslava (Navarra) since 2017 with Cederna-Garalur. Affiliated with research group NAHIS (Navarra histórica. Presencias y contextos), he has directed 10 doctoral theses and leads projects including EU-funded Valete vos viatores (2020-2022). Key publications: "Munificencia pública en la provincia Lusitania (siglos I-IV d.C.)" (2004), "Edictum, municipium y lex: Hispania en época Flavia (69-96 d.C.)" (2004), "Fundamentos de epigrafía latina" (2009, with D. Espinosa Liceus), "La ciudad romana de Los Bañales en las fuentes históricas" (2011), "Parva Oppida. Imagen, patrones e ideología del despegue monumental de las ciudades en la Tarraconense hispana (siglos I a.C.-I d.C.)" (2020), "Liberalitas flavia: obras públicas, monumentalización urbana e imagen dinástica en el Principado de los Flavos (69-96 d.C.)" (2022). With 2,640 Google Scholar citations, he edits Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra and Monografías Los Bañales series, received Premio Sísifo 2018 for excavations, and is president of Sociedad de Estudios Históricos de Navarra since 2024.